Jolly Tumuhiirwe, a Ugandan nanny who was caught on secret camera
torturing 18-month-old Arnella, has spoken out.
Tumuhiirwe, who has been charged with attempted murder and due to
appear in court on Dec. 08, 2014, spoke from Luzira prison. She asked the
‘world’ to forgive her for what she did.
According to Ugandan Online.net, she said: “My dad in Kabale was very
sick and yet my mom did not have any money. I asked my bosses for some
money to send to my dad but they told me that I hadn’t made a month yet
and my father was dying, so it kept on haunting me.”
“That is the more reason I referred the anger to the baby but I’m sorry.
But that madam (Arnella’s mom) is not easy. She used to say that I steal
money from the clothes and Eric’s wallet, I eat the babies food…
and yet I
can’t eat the food, I’m not a baby, those were all lies, so, I was also not
happy from my heart.”
“I feel guilty..ok when I was doing it I thought I was disciplining the baby
because also the mother sometimes slaps her, I also saw from the mom.
The torch I used was small and it’s not hard. I think, I will never do it
again”
Jolly says her experience in prison is not good.
“It’s not good at all even my fellow prisoners don’t want to associate with
me, they want to beat me up. In fact they were saying that I should join
them in their rooms, nobody likes me and I’m feeling bad I will never do
it again, I ask the world to forgive me and also tell the bosses who have
maids to treat them well.”
She says she was Also Beaten.
It’s a long video and actually the parents had not watched it in it’s
entirety. All Eric saw was that part when the maid was slapping Arnella
for not eating.
It was then that Eric Kamanzi came home and beat up the maid for having
slapped his daughter. Of course, the nanny was not aware she was being
recorded, so she wondered why Eric was acting that way. This forced Jolly
who had only worked for 26 days in that home to seek help from
authorities.
Eric was later arrested and ordered to pay Jolly her monthly salary of
60,000/- and get rid of her. However, Eric and Angella Mbabazi got to
watch the full recording of about 10 hours, they were shocked with what
they discovered. In some scenes, the maid could be seen lifting Arnella by
the hair, stomping on the back and kicking her in the process.
Eric showed them the clip, they were equally shocked leading to his
release and the subsquent arrest of Jolly. On being arrested, Jolly said that
she had also been beaten but was quick to add that Arnella was lucky, she
did not bleed, but I bled. Jolly was even showing off a blood soaked T-
shirt she was wearing at the time of the beating, she even showed off
marks sustained from the caning on her back.
The police boss, Gen. Kale Kayihura has now ordered that an additional
statement be got from Jolly Tumuhiirwe on the events leading up to the
time of the video footage.
Source:African spotlight
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